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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts 
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It's been very hot and dry this year. Yesterday it was 34C (93F)--which is unusually hot for us.
As a city dweller, it's been really nice, but there are over 50 wildfires out of control in the boreal forest, including one worrisome fire only 15km from Jasper.  When the wind is right, the whole world smells like distant barbecue. Saskatchewan and British Columbia have been similarly hot, with even more fires in Saskatchewan; several First Nations communities have been evacuated. Love to see some rain. We had below-average snowpack over winter, and very little rain in spring and early summer. How's the weather where you live?
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We've been getting the smoke from the Canadian wildfires down here in Colorado. We've had an unusual patch of overcast and rainy days. Quite a change from 3 years ago when drought was threatening water rationing and two years when we had spate of some of the worst wildfires in history of the state.
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts
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Still in severe drought conditions, though it actually rained a little bit yesterday. The weather's going from triple digit heat to cool spring day and back again. Sometimes in the course of a day or two. (I notice some people tend to get sick when conditions change that fast.) Anyway, quite crazy, but I'm hoping the El Niño will stick around and give us a very snowy winter- a great deal of water comes from California's snow pack, and last year we really didn't have much of one at all.
(Now we just have to get our aquaducts and reservoir system up to par to take advantage of that water if it comes.)
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RNK Inner circle 7529 Posts
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The northeast US is getting drenched and temps are below normal. With a freezing past winter and horribly wet cold summer I feel bad for the school kids here as they are getting a horrible summer.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On Jul 10, 2015, EsnRedshirt wrote: As you note: the snow's more important than the rain. There are glaciers in the Sierra Nevada that are at 20% of their normal volume; it will take decades of average snowfall to restore them. I wish that there were some way we could have trucked snow from the Northeast to California the last few Winters; that'd've been a big help. |
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On Jul 10, 2015, imgic wrote: Please keep the smoke in Boulder, Colorado Springs wants none of it!
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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Getting back to Magnus' question: it's been generally cooler than normal here in Southern California: mid-70s this week, which is about 10 degrees F lower than normal.
But still no measurable rain, alas. Lots of humidity (50%+), but no rain. |
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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We've been up and down a lot here in Utah.
Started with a much wetter than normal spring and early summer. Then we had some really hot weeks with multiple days hitting 100 and now it's cooled off again with more intermittent rain. A bit unusual. |
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts
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On Jul 10, 2015, S2000magician wrote: I know at least one person suggesting converting some of the oil pipelines that run across the country so they can carry water from the flooded East coast over to the West coast. I don't think there's enough profit to be made in transporting water like that for it to be a viable solution... yet.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On Jul 10, 2015, EsnRedshirt wrote: It's just a bad idea. Look at the failed water-transfer projects from the Soviet Union. You take a degraded ecosystem, and try to fix it by degrading a second one. The final result is that both are worse than before you started. Sensible local management seems greatly preferable.
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts
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When will de-salinization become a viable solution?
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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imgic Inner circle Moved back to Midwest to see 1339 Posts
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On Jul 10, 2015, rockwall wrote: Not until new technological break through occurs. While in SoCal a few months back heard that San Diego is opening huge $1+ Billion desalination plant and it's only going to provide a very small percentage (about 5% if I remember) of their needs. Plus there's ecological impact with the process.
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On Jul 10, 2015, lunatik wrote: Only if you all promise to keep your tumbleweed a down south. Was in Springs not too long ago and darn things were all over the place.
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Here in NYC, the pattern is the same as it's been the last eight or nine years or so: we've gone from four seasons to two--winter followed by summer,
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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Another hot and smoky weekend in northern Alberta. Come on rain!
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Daryl -the other brother Special user Chicago 594 Posts
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Here in the midwest it seems to rain at least every other day and when its not raining the humidity makes it miserable. Not a normal Chicago summer.
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On Jul 10, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Where I live, it's a bit smoggy due to the smoke blowing in from Canada. It's been clearer the last two days so I hope that's a sign that things are better up north. |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts
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On Jul 11, 2015, imgic wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/h......ory.html SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The slumbering desalination plant that rests off the Ventura Freeway in a seedy area called the Funk Zone might one day be the answer to this coastal city's desperate need for water. Desalination, which is used from Israel to Australia, isn’t new. The United States has at least 200 plants, including nearly 150 in Florida that produce more than 500 million gallons of fresh water each day. In California, where cities are increasingly desperate as the drought drags into its fourth year, 21 plants are operating, and 17 are proposed, according to the Pacific Institute, a research group based in Oakland. San Diego is putting the finishing touches on a $1 billion plant, which will be the largest in the Western Hemisphere. In Santa Barbara, officials are hoping to restart their plant next year so it can provide the city with 30 percent of its water supply by 2017. A pipe would extend three-quarters of a mile into the Pacific Ocean and draw in about 7 million gallons a day. [More at the link]
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On Jul 11, 2015, Starrpower wrote: Wow, that first statement leaves so many openings.  But I am trying to be good.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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